In despair

Today I am in despair. I feel flat, lifeless, spent, wrung out. I am tired.
Where is that perfect, calm family I always imagined would be mine? What happened to laughs, teamwork and a clockwork quality to our day? Where everyone has their chores, completes them responsibly and with respect [...]

HERevolution

I was incredibly honoured to recently be one of those invited to guest post at Jodie Miller’s humanist personal growth blog, HERevolution .
The ‘brief’ was to write about a life changing experience, and I found it incredibly hard. I wanted to write something positive and uplifting, and I worked on another piece tirelessly, trying [...]

A strange compliment

The other day I was out and about, and I bumped into someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After exchanging the usual pleasantries she exclaimed in complete admiration “You are looking really good! You don’t look like a mother at all…. well done!”
Well I admit to a swelling of the [...]

25 things- the final 10

Following on from my 25 things post.
16. I am not a morning person. When I wake up, I stagger out to the couch, eyes firmly shut, until I feel the inviting warmth of a coffee placed in my hands by my wonderful husband. The kids know not to talk to me until I [...]

25 things- the first 15

Recently there was a thing on Facebook going around, where people listed 25 things about themselves that people wouldn’t know. Well, my keeping this blog makes it incredibly difficult to find 25 things that people don’t know about me, but I thought I would give it a go. I managed to get to [...]

Protected: Secret post

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Frog Dreaming was just having a hissy fit

OK, maybe I was a little hasty. I was in a funk, having a hissy, MAKING A STAND! Nope, I am not going to blog ANY MORE! Thats IT, I am DONE, have a nice LIFE, IT’S OVER!!!!
I slammed the cyber door, I kicked the virtual wall in anger, and BY GOSH [...]

FROG DREAMING IS HAVING A HOLIDAY…..

…….Until further notice……..

Pilates is torture!

I just got back from my first true-blue dinky-di pilates session.
I have been doing a beginners course for the past six weeks, and I have been loving it! An hour and a half of talk talk talk, demonstrate, exercise, talk talk talk, demonstrate, exercise…. I thought I had found my kinda exercise!
Well.
Today, [...]

EMERGENCY!!

Today has been very stressful due to a scheduled medical procedure that bordered on an emergency.
My coffee machine has been looking a bit green of late, and I was becoming concerned, so I called The Coffee Machine Doctor and explained with concern the distressing symptoms (mine) of my ailing caffeinator.
He promised to come [...]